Events from the year 1889 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Monarch – Victoria
Federal government
- Governor General – Frederick Stanley
- Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald
- Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
- Parliament – 6th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Hugh Nelson
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Archibald McLelan
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – A.A. Macdonald (until September 2) then Jedediah Slason Carvell
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – Alexander Edmund Batson Davie (until August 1) then John Robson (from August 2)
- Premier of Manitoba – Thomas Greenway
- Premier of New Brunswick – Andrew George Blair
- Premier of Nova Scotia – William Stevens Fielding
- Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – William Wilfred Sullivan (until November 1) then Neil McLeod
- Premier of Quebec – Honoré Mercier
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – John Christian Schultz
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Joseph Royal
Premiers
- Chairman of the Lieutenant-Governor's Advisory Council of the North-West Territories – Robert Brett
Events
- August 1 – Alexander Davie, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office.
- August 2 – John Robson becomes premier of British Columbia.
- August 12 – The Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889 of the British Parliament expands Ontario's boundaries west to the Lake of the Woods and north to the Albany River.
- September 19 – A rockslide in Quebec City kills 45
- November – Neil McLeod becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Sir William Wilfred Sullivan.
- November 6 – Newfoundland election: William Whiteway's Liberals win a majority, defeating Robert Thorburn's Reforms
Full date unknown
- The Dominion Women Enfranchisement Association is created to campaign for women's right to vote
Births
- February 27 – Samuel Bronfman, businessman (d.1971)
- May 16 – Morris Gray, politician (d.1966)
- August 13 – Camillien Houde, politician and four-time mayor of Montreal (d.1958)
- October 13 – Douglass Dumbrille, actor (d.1974)
- November 20 – John B. McNair, lawyer, politician, judge and 22nd Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (d.1968)
- December 4 – Leslie Gordon Bell, politician and lawyer (d.1963)
Deaths
- April 9 – Andrew Charles Elliott, jurist, politician and 4th Premier of British Columbia (b. c1828)
- May 4 – A. B. Rogers, surveyor (b.1829)
- June 5 – John Hamilton Gray, Premier of New Brunswick (b.1814)
- July 5 – John Norquay, politician and 5th Premier of Manitoba (b.1841)
- August 1 – Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, politician and 7th Premier of British Columbia (b.1847)
- September 5 – Louis-Victor Sicotte, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1812)
- September 13 – Henry Joseph Clarke, lawyer, politician and 3rd Premier of Manitoba (b.1833)
- October 28 – Alexander Morris, politician, Minister and 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (b.1826)
Full date unknown
- Edwin Randolph Oakes, politician (b.1818)
Historical documents
Archbishop Taché cites education report from England to support Manitoba separate schools
Report on repatriating French Canadians living in New England
Table: Of 7 U.S. cities with more than 10,000 Canadian-born residents (including Newfoundlanders), 4 are in New England, mostly in 3 industrial towns
Table: In all 6 New England states, whites with both parents born in "Canada (French)" far outnumber those with parents born in "Canada (English)"
"A thrill of horror pulsed through the whole city last night" - Rockslide from cliff below Citadel destroys several Quebec City houses
Canada should be equal to Britain in Empire, and under "Queen of Canada"
John A. Macdonald on missed opportunity to create Kingdom of Canada with "gradation of classes"
Methodist minister's brief description of Stoneys concentrates on their problems
Nova Scotia orphanage holds housewarming
Ad for "Aphroditine[...]Sold on positive guarantee to cure any form of nervous disease, or any disorder of the generative organs"
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